The (B)Advent Calendar - Dec 11th

Yep, today's major humbug about Christmas is the fact that as soon as November strikes every shop seems to raise all their prices about 600% - meaning that it costs you a not-so-small fortune to buy presents for everyone...

So, when Christmas Day arrives you've accumulated the National Debt of a small country... the moths in your wallet have died of starvation... and your credit card is nothing but a small pool of molten plastic gloop...

And then comes the Boxing Day sales - where things you spent £50 on 2 days ago, are suddenly reduced to a quid!